Re: Emergency Repair Disk info not fitting onto blank floppy disk

From: Ron Ruble (raffles2@att.net)
Date: 04/06/03 

From: "Ron Ruble" <raffles2@att.net>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 09:18:38 -0400

<cwr_opera@operamail.com> wrote in message news:vTqdnWR0w9hv3hKjXTWcpg@comcast.com...
> Hello all,
>
> Been running my NT 4.0 sp6a box for over a 2 years without any problems. I
> am in the process of installing a cdr/cdrw drive on my system and I want to
> update my ERD before I make any changes to my system. This is where I am
> running into a small problem. I can start the ERD utility and everything
> goes well until I get to the part where the files are copied to a floppy
> disc. It copies for bit then gives me an error message stating that the disc
> is full and the procedure cannot be fully completed. The floppy disc that I
> am using is brand new, freshly formatted, and completely blank. Is there
> something that I am missing here or is there a trick to updating my ERD?

This is normal and documented by MS, although inconvenient.

The only solution I know of is to use "Update Repair Information"
rather than "Disk", and copy the information from the REPAIR
folder under WINNT to media large enough to hold it (or zip
the files with the span disks option).

> If anyone does answer, please reply to the newsgroup as well as to me
> privately by email at: cwr_opera@operamail.com

Nope. Post here, read here is the standard on usenet.